KreolMorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation
Raj Dabre, Aneerav Sukhoo · 2022
In this paper, we describe KreolMorisienMT, a dataset for benchmarking machine translation quality of Mauritian Creole.Mauritian Creole (Kreol Morisien) is a French-based creole and a lingua franca of the Republic of Mauritius.KreolMorisienMT consists of a parallel corpus between English and Kreol Morisien, French and Kreol Morisien and a monolingual corpus for Kreol Morisien.We first give an overview of Kreol Morisien and then describe the steps taken to create the corpora.Thereafter, we benchmark Kreol Morisien↔English and Kreol Morisien↔French models leveraging pre-trained models and multilingual transfer learning.Human evaluation reveals our systems' high translation quality.